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Meet Chrissy

Chrissy Rafiq is 23 years old. She came to Vimphere to live with her husband and raise her three year old daughter, Fortune. Until recently, she would have to wake up up at midnight everyday, get her pail and brave the darkness in search of water. This routine characterized her life for the past 7 years.

This winter, your support helped to transform the village of Vimphere, Malawi when clean water arrived in the village for the very first time.

When the borehole was drilled, Chrissy was one of the happiest women, a deep expression of joy transforming her face, as she understood this was the dawn of a new era in her life.

Vimphere has now joined the 9 in 10 of us who have clean, safe water. But we want to reach everyone everywhere by 2030. One family, one village, one country at a time.

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Meet Zione

“When the borehole was put in, it was a very happy moment for us and we celebrated the whole night, we didn’t sleep because we were afraid they might take it back. We had to make sure the borehole was here to stay.”Life in the village is very different now. Safe water has had a ‘ripple effect’ that has changed everything. In each community, safe water and sanitation not only bring health; they bring education, employment and the opportunity of a better future for everyone.

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Show us what you are #MadeOf

We want to begin 2017 celebrating all that we have in common.

The fact that we're all...

Made of the same stuff.

That's right. We're all made of approximately 60% water. It unites us biologically and physically. Just to survive our bodies need around 2.4 litres of water every day.

Together, we're made of the stuff that makes history.

Female empowerment through WASH behaviour change and skills training, like latrine construction, in our WASH4PH program in Northern Ghana has served as a catalyst in the transformation of gender relations and support of women and girls as agents of change #IDW2018@CanHCGhanapic.twitter.com/I7SD1JGmG2